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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Actual # 2 horses 3-5 horses 6 or more horses Duty
1789 Royal Burgh of Ayr LSd [Pounds, Shillings, Pence]
3 [--] 1789 Provost Fergusson 2 1 £0.3.9
John Hunter hyrer 3 2 £0.11.3
8 [--] 1789 Countess of Crawford 6 5 £1.17.6
10 [--] 1789 Hugh Hamilton of Pinmore 2 1 £0.3.9
Total 4 13 9/2 2 5 £2.16.3

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Royal Burgh of Ayr
from 5th July 1789 to 5th April 1790 By Robert Aiken Surveyor

Proof
2 Horses @ 3/9 [£0.3.9] each or 5/- [£0.5.0]
per annum -- £0.7.6
5 Horses @ 7/6 [£0.7.6] or
10/. [£0.10.0] per annum -- £1.17.6
Tot. [Total] by Proof £2.5.0

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify That
upon carefull examination of the forgoing Rates and Duties I find
they amount in whole to Two pounds 16 shillings & 3 pence Sterling And
that upon the sixteenth Day of March Current I delivered to Mr
Thomas McClelland Principal Collector of said Duties for said Burgh
an exact Duplicate of, and duly examined & compared with the foregoing
Account, which contained my Oath that notifications were left or delivered
of the dates foresaid, and that the rates charged in said account were
just and true to the best of my skill & knowledge, And to the
best of my belief no person liable to be Charged was omitted.
[Signed] Robert Aiken Surveyor

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